Overmantel Relief with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl, by Jan Baptist Xavery, in or after 1735 - in or before 1742
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Overmantel Relief with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl

Also titled Schoorsteenstuk met Apollo en de Cumeïsche sibylle

Jan Baptist Xavery (Antwerp, 1697–1742)

in or after 1735 - in or before 1742

Medium
marble (rock)
Classification
overmantel
Dimensions
height 116.2 cm x width 80 cm x depth 13.5 cm x weight 138 kg
Museum
Rijksmuseum
Credit line
On loan from the Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen
Rights
Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Rijksmuseum

About this work

Jan Baptist Xavery (1697 - 1742). Chimney-piece: Apollo and the Cumaean sybilla. Marble. The Hague, 1742. Made for Stadholder Willem IV of Orange for his palace Huis Ten Bosch in The Hague.